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    Going back to work

    Got a call from my company last week to come back to work, for a sister company on Stimulus Job in Washington DC.. Well moving 1million cubic yard of materials for a new Coast Guard training facility at St Elizebeths Federal Nut Hospitol, yeah know where the famous John Hinckely is housed for...
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    on a new job...on a new hoe life is good!!!

    Very Nice, do they need any help. Ive run one of those 328 before, turn on the heat slip in CD and go to work. Those machines are good for tight spots, turning, I believe they dont have a conventional counter weight. You should be good to go.
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    Gettin over on me and laid off again

    I have had time to consider this and I will NOT fight for back wages. I took the position of a truck driver and chose to drive these other pieces of equipment, was not forced to. So as a man of my word I am just going to wait around to see if they call me back. BUT I will not run any other piece...
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    Gettin over on me and laid off again

    FIght for back pay or Not I dont know if I should, If I raise a bunch s--t now they probably wont call me back in the spring. I would like to get a consenses of wheather I should fight for back pay. You fells out there hit me back Yes or No
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    Gettin over on me and laid off again

    Yeah I guess I'M whinning, just came off 10 month unemployment to work for 3 months and get laid off again. Maybe some of you high paid operators can afford this, but I can not. I have done this type work for 25 years, dont know to much else. Can't compete with a--kissers, wont, I'm good...
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    Gettin over on me and laid off again

    I think both of you are right, they laided a dozer operator off the same day they asked me to run it. But other fellow is correct too, around here there is at least 100 people ready to take your seat. This company I was working for is a large bridge contractor from northern virginia, the first...
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    Gettin over on me and laid off again

    Late september landed a job on ICC down hear in Maryland a scale job building the most expensive toll road in the us. Anyway they hired me to drive end dump, 16.00 an hour just enough to pay the bills. So they asked can you run a excavator, week later a dozier, week after that a motorgrader. For...
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    Senior Excavator/Operator Needs Work

    25 years expe. Dozer, loader, excavator, trecher and rubber tire hoe for the fine touch, digging around uitilities. Can read prints, shoot elevations, read cut and fill stakes and lazer setup. I live in Md. But will travel anywhere for a long lasting job. Been laid of since nov 08, many...
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    Who is working

    Someone should start a survey Not working since november 08
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    How do you think operators should treat equipment?

    Like its yours, nothing more disgusting than getting into a dirty machine that sqeaks,low on oil, can't even move the seat back cause of all the **** thrown behind the seat by some of our so called shorter operators. Makes the cab smell like the bottom of a garbage can. But they are the ones...
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    Shepherd Construction , Atlanta Georgia

    my daddy got me this job
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    Which brand excavator do you like the most?

    Cat is the most widely used and is a little slow in turning the bigger the machine. Ive used mostly all but JD seems to have the edge.
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